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J. MADDEN & G. R. BROWN.

LOOK FOR WHIP SOCKETS.

Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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LATENT JOHN MADDEN AND CHARLES R. BROXVN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO; SAIDMADDEN ASSIGNOR TO SAID BRO\VN.

LOOK FOR WHIP-SOCKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 337,846, dated March 16,1886 To a whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN MADDEN and CHARLES R. BRO N, of Cleveland, inthe county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain newand Improved Lock for XVhip-Soekets and other Purposes; and we do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and complete descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof the same, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of a whip sockethaving applied thereto the locking device for securing the whip therein.Fig. 2 is a transverse longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a detachedportion of the socket. Fig. 4 is a detached section of the soeketslocking device.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The improvement in whip-sockets, above mentioned, relates to a devicefor securing the whip therein, and is intended for that particularpurpose; however, the invention may be applied to other purposes thanthat specified, as hereinafter manifest.

\Vhips which are left standing in the whipsocket of a carriage, withoutbeing secured therein, are sometimes stolen therefrom during thetemporary absence of the owner. To prevent such stealing is the objectof this invention, which consists in looking the whip in the socket.

The construction of the socket and the looking device is substantiallyas follows: Said socket consists of two longitudinal sections, A and B,Fig. 1, which may be of the shape shown, or such modification of thesameas may be desirable. The two sections are connected to each other by ahingejoint. Said joint consists of a pair of ears, (3 and D, one at eachend of the diameter of section B, and are integral parts thereof, asshown in Figs. 1 and 2.

a a are the pivotal pins of the joints, and by which joints the upperand the lower ends of the two sections are free to open and close forinserting in the socket the end of the whip G in Fig. 1.

The locking device consists of a tubular neck, H, provided with a ring,I, by which Serial No. 181,375. (No model.)

the lock is attached to the socket, as seen in Fig. 1, in which it willbe noticed that the ring surrounds the upper end of the socket.

J, Fig. 2, is a threaded bolt passing freely through the side of thesocket in a slot, 0, Figs. 2 and 3, thence loosely through the neck H toa flange-nut, K, screwed thereon, as seen in Fig. 2. Said nut is adaptedto fit in a recess in the end of the neck, while the flange projectscircu'mferentially beyond the end of the neck. In the flange of the nutis a peripheral groove, d, the use of which will presently be shown.

L is a cap fitted loosely to and covering the flange of the nut, andwhich is prevented from coming off therefrom by a nib, c, Fig. 4,projecting from the inner side or rim of the cap into the groove (Z inthe flange of the nut. While the said groove and nib prevent the capfrom leaving the nut, the cap is free to be turned around on the nutwithout the nut being turned thereby, unless the cap is made fast to thenut by the key M, screwed into and through the rim of the cap to thenut, as seen in Fig. 2. That portion of the bolt J that is in the slot 0of the socket is square, and is thereby prevented from turning around inthe said slot on working the nut J and the head of the bolt, for beingon the inner side of the slot is thereby retained therein.

The operation of the above-described device is as follows: As shown inthe drawings, the whip G- is inserted in the socket and locked therein.To remove the whip from the socket the key M is taken and screwed intothe cap to the flange of the nut, as seen in Fig. 2, thereby fasteningthe cap to the nut, which can now be screwed back on the bolt by meansof the cap. This will slacken the head I) of the bolt from the socket,between which and the neck H the side of the socket was firmly clamped.The ring and lock can now be slid upward to the smaller diameter of thesocket, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, so that the ends ofthe socket can be spread apart to allow the whip to be taken out. Thesocket being unlocked and the ends thereof open, as above described,awhip may then be inserted therein, which when done, the ring is slippeddown over the larger part of the socket to the position shown in thedrawings. As the ring slips down the ends of the socket are closedthereby tightly about the whip, which are made fast in their position byscrewing up the nut by the cap L, secured to the nut by the screw-key M,as above described. This screwing up the nut draws the head of the boltagainst the side of the socket, thereby clamping the side B of thesocket between the said head and the end of the neck, so that the ringcannot be pushed up. The key is now removed, and the nut cannot beturned on turning the cap, as thecap will simply turn it, and instead ofthewperipheral groove and nib a flange may be turned down over the nut'for confining the cap thereon.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by letters Patent,is-

1. In whip-sockets, in combination with the jointed two-part socket,consisting of section A and slotted section B, the binding-ring andtubular neck, bolt J, and nut, said nut having a peripheral groove inits flange adapted to receive the nib of the cap L, constructed andarranged to operate in the manner substantially as described, and forthe'purpose' specified.

2. The combination, with the cap L and nut of the herein-described lockfor whip-sockets, of the screw-key M, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN MADDEN. CHARLES R. BROWN.

\Vitnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, J. H;'BURRIDGE'.'

